gLabels, as packaged in the Ubuntu
repositories, has not worked properly for some time. The accuracy of printing
was way out making gLabels pretty a non-starter unless you went to the hassle
of manually re-aligning every label on a page to account for the inaccuracies.

However, I have been patitently waiting for a new version of gLables to be
released. The new development branch completely replaces libgnomeprint with
the new GtkPrintOperation and Cairo. The upshot of that is that the printing
accuracy issues are resolved.

GetDeb have released .debs for gLabels 2.2.1
that work with Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10. You can either download the .debs from the
gLabels page at GetDeb and let gdebi do its thing or do the following from the shell…